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Post by trojandog on Apr 27, 2017 16:26:33 GMT
Boom Bang-a-Bang - Lulu Bang Bang - Nancy Sinatra Christ I'm showing my age! I'm getting an inkling that this thread has drifted slightly off-topic
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Post by trojandog on Apr 27, 2017 16:04:33 GMT
Ah, memories. 90/91 I was out there attached to the US Marine Corps with my trusty SMG - had it five years and not one stoppage. The yanks had never seen one before. I told 'em to look closely at the Stormtrooper's weapons on Star Wars . Flying back from Dhahran, the Monkeys were x-raying all our kit looking for 'souvenirs'. They were so intent on searching kit bags and burgens that not one of the fuckwits noticed that I had two SMGs slung over my shoulder! ( It was legit, I was bringing a mate's SMG back who had vanished on Comp A). What Corps/Regt were you in TD? Former REME tank mechanic, attached to the Queens Royal Irish Hussars out there - We had Col Melly (Arthur Denaro) the man on the telly as our C.O. One of my feckwits tried to bring an AK mag back in his bergan, RMP confiscated it along with the 30 odd rounds. Didn't find the AK's up the breach of 0B though INT CORPS. They never found my solid silver coffee pot! I nicked it from an Iraqi CP, who must have nicked it from the VIP lounge at Kuwait Airport as it's got 'Kuwait Airways' engraved on it. It showed up on the x-ray machine: RMP - "What's that". Me - "It's a coffee pot". RMP - "Why have you got a coffee pot?". Me - "It's a present for me mum". RMP (you could see him trying to think) - "Away you go". Did you ever come across an ex-tote ender called Ray Exon? He joined the REME about the same time I joined up in '77.
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Post by trojandog on Apr 27, 2017 15:38:06 GMT
That would me sound like I was from Essex though. A Millwall fan actually from SE London / Eastend would be far more clipped (for the Special lady garden). Think Mike Reid (Frank Butcher in Eastenders) or Bricktop from the film Snatch - both locals to Millwall. On the subject of accents, a few years ago, me and scrappydoo were actively making our way through the 92 league grounds (and then a lot of the Conference sides during our season down there). I managed to get tickets to a West Ham game at Upton Park. I remember him listening to the chants (as he likes to do) and he was watering himself laughing. I asked him what he was laughing at and his reply was "Dad, they don't know how to say wankers. They keep calling the other team wankas". Made I laff I was born and brought up in Eastville, but on a trip to the US a couple of years ago a women in a gas station wanted to know which part of California I was from! At motel in Arizona the bloke on the desk asked me "Is it this hot back home in Australia?".
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Post by trojandog on Apr 27, 2017 15:24:00 GMT
With an L2A1 40 round magazine to save time on reloading I may have fired the 7.62 Self Loading Rifle on more than one occasion, combined with the 30 round Light Machine Gun Magazine (not to be confused with Playboy) you could look really Ally. My weapon for deployment in 90/91 was the venerable 9mm Sterling Sub Machine Gun, in nearly six months of deployment not one round was expended from it! Too busy fixing the prime movers of the Squadron to fit any ranges in, just might have had a cabby on an AK47 that was abandoned on the floor in a certain middle eastern country - nudge nudge, wink wink Anyway back to Sunday, I will have a belting hangover from my annual trip to Twickenham on Saturday so hope we give the sarf landon geezers a good pasting on the pitch Ah, memories. 90/91 I was out there attached to the US Marine Corps with my trusty SMG - had it five years and not one stoppage. The yanks had never seen one before. I told 'em to look closely at the Stormtrooper's weapons on Star Wars . Flying back from Dhahran, the Monkeys were x-raying all our kit looking for 'souvenirs'. They were so intent on searching kit bags and burgens that not one of the fuckwits noticed that I had two SMGs slung over my shoulder! ( It was legit, I was bringing a mate's SMG back who had vanished on Comp A).
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Post by trojandog on Apr 18, 2017 13:38:33 GMT
BRFC say on facebook today that it is now all-ticket. Should have been made all-ticket from the start.
Anyway, lift offered for Millwall game:
Dep Blackboys, East Sussex 0600 then - Uckfield - Crawley - arr Bristol 0900ish. Dep Bristol 1800, reverse route.
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Post by trojandog on Apr 17, 2017 23:35:34 GMT
"delays the inevitable"
inevitable - adjective
certain to happen; unavoidable.
Unlikely, yes. Inevitable, no.
Me, pedantic? yes.
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Post by trojandog on Apr 14, 2017 18:54:52 GMT
Had a couple in the Fleur De Lis, Gillingham. Sign on the wall outside said 'Traditional Ales'. Me - "What ales have got?". Barman - "Er..., John Smith's". Me - "Is that it?". Barman - "Yup".
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Post by trojandog on Apr 14, 2017 8:45:02 GMT
Living here in Sussex, I don't get to many games so it's been a long time since I've been to two games in one week. Didn't expect us to win a Wimbledon so I'm hoping for another nervous 89 minutes and 49 seconds at Gillingham today to hang on for another 0-1 win.
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Post by trojandog on Apr 9, 2017 20:26:27 GMT
Tickets have been on sale for ages. I bought mine at the end of February. Just took a look at it and it is dated 21st Feb which I guess is the day they were printed.
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Post by trojandog on Apr 7, 2017 19:10:47 GMT
Looking forward to tomorrow. A warm sunny day is forecast and a probable sell-out (we sold all ours and Wimbledon had 50 tickets left this morning). Catching an early train up from Sussex and planning on walking into Kingston-on-Thames and finding nice pub by the river for a snifter or four.
Don't plan on a pint at the ground. From their website - "Bristol Rovers supporters are not allowed in the bar areas".
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Post by trojandog on Apr 4, 2017 19:20:58 GMT
Not been to Wombleland before. Any decent away friendly pubs between Norbiton Station and t'ground? Womble website says that a decision as to whether away fans will be allowed to use the bars at the ground will be made on Friday.
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Post by trojandog on Apr 4, 2017 19:05:07 GMT
Illegitimi non carborundum
For those that can't be arsed to google it - 'Don't let the bastards grind you down'.
It might fool people into thinking we're a bunch of interlektules.
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Post by trojandog on Apr 2, 2017 0:50:29 GMT
I agree with Ian's caption re our skull and cross bones flag. We have one of the best official nicknames and also probably the most woefully exploited. Half the clubs in the league would die for a nickname as good as ours. Ditch the gay pirate standing on a ball and give us a bloody skull and cross bones. It's no coincidence that the best cap badge in the British Army was the 17/21st Lancers:
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Post by trojandog on Mar 29, 2017 11:58:42 GMT
Can we have the new stadium just off junction J7 of the M25 please? It's a bugger driving from Sussex to the Mem and back in a day.
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Post by trojandog on Mar 24, 2017 14:15:56 GMT
Quite a bit of chat on the Coventry forums about a protest in the form of a pitch invasion. Some saying that no-one will take any notice unless the game gets abandoned. I expect the club and Police will be monitoring the forums. Mind you, an invasion by the 300 home fans will look pretty crap.
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Post by trojandog on Mar 23, 2017 21:20:44 GMT
Sit where you want is fine if it's not a sell out. But if there are 2000 seats and 2000 tickets sold, it doesn't work. You end up with dozens and dozens of odd single seats dotted all over the place that no-one wants sit in because they are with mate/partner.
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Post by trojandog on Mar 19, 2017 16:21:29 GMT
Just realised that the play-off final is on my birthday. Now that would make one hell of a present!
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Post by trojandog on Mar 19, 2017 14:12:03 GMT
A good thread. I went to my first Rover's game in 1961. This by is far the best time to be a Rovers fan. Chatting to some Oxford fans in the bowling alley bar at the Oxford game, they were unanimous in their respect for Darrel Clarke and what we have achieved as a club. It was also interesting to hear them say how Goodnight Irene drives them up the wall. However, they were quite jealous of the fact that we have a song that is so closely associated with our club.
Although I would never have said it at the time, it is now obvious that relegation was the best thing that could have happened to the club. I also think that promotion this season to the Championship would be a bad thing; we just aren't ready, both team and infrastructure wise. That said, I'll be leaping up and down with everyone else if we manage to pull it off.
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Post by trojandog on Mar 16, 2017 16:52:15 GMT
My family have lived in the Rape of Lewes for generations, it's a lovely part of the world. Have to say Blackboys always made me laugh a bit. Yeah, racist and sexist in one word. If you google it, don't put a gap between the k and the b unless you want some interesting results. I often wonder what Neville did to get tarred when I drive through Tarring Neville near Newhaven.
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Post by trojandog on Mar 16, 2017 13:13:19 GMT
Close . Lewes? Ditchling? Not quite - Blackboys.
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